Lednice–Valtice Cultural Landscape

The Lednice- Valtice Cultural Landscape (also Lednice-Valtice Area or Lednice-Valtice Complex, ) is a cultural-natural complex of 283,09 km² in the Czech Republic, South Moravian Region, close to Břeclav and Mikulov, next to another site registered by UNESCO - Pálava Landscape Protected Area.

History and description

During the 18th and 19th centuries the area was transformed by local manor lordship - the House of Liechtenstein - into some large landscape park with two centres:

• Valtice Castle (and contiguous town)
• Lednice Castle (and contiguous village)

These two localities are connected by so called Bezruč Avenue (from 1715). There are also one more village - Hlohovec. Between Lednice, Valtice and Hlohovec the Lednice Ponds (Lednické rybníky) are situated (Mlýnský, Prostřední, Hlohovecký and Nesyt Ponds). A substantial part of the complex is covered with the Pine wood (Boří les) and partially with a riparian forest adjacent to the River Dyje.

Except for above mentioned, there are a lot of bigger or smaller pavilions scattered throughout the whole complex (they often served as hunting lodges)The term zámeček (, literally a small château) is here translated usually as a (manor) house - or a hunting lodge (, ), if it served for hunting.:

• Rajsna (German: Reistna, The Colonnade)
  - a Classicist colonnade on the top of a hill ridge above Valtice (like a gloriette) from 1810s-1820s
• Belvedere
• Rendezvous (or Temple of Diana)
  - a hunting lodge in a form of a Classicist arch from 1810s
• St Hubert Chapel (Kaple svatého Huberta)
  - a Neo-Gothic column structure from 1850s dedicated to the patron saint of hunters, situated in the Pine wood
• Border House (Hraniční zámeček)
  - a Classicist chateau built in 1820s directly on the former (until 1920) bordline between Lower Austria and Moravia
• Temple of the Three Graces (Tři Grácie)
  - a semicircle gallery with allegorical statues of Sciences and Muses and a statue of the Three Graces from 1820s
• Pond House (Rybniční zámeček)
  - ashore of one of the Lednice Ponds
• Nový dvůr (German: Neuhof, New Farm) - a Classicist farm finished in 1809, originally used for sheep husbandry, nowadays for horse breeding
• Apollo Temple (Apollónův chrám)
  - a Classicist hunting lodge from 1810s, ashore of one of the Lednice Ponds
• Hunting Lodge (Lovecký zámeček)
  - a Classicist house from 1806
• John's Castle (Janohrad)
  - a Neo-Gothic "artificial ruins" (, ) in style of a castle, finished in 1810
• Minaret
  - a Moorish Revival structure (62 m high) in the Lednice Castle garden (finished in 1804), it serves as an observation tower
• Obelisk
  - erected in memory of the peace treaty of Campo Formio (1798)
• Pohansko
  - an Empire-style hunting lodge finished after 1812, it houses an exhibition of Břeclav Town Museum:
  close to the lodge there are both an important archaeological site of Great Moravian remains and reconstructed parts of the Czechoslovak border fortifications
• Lány
  - an Empire-style hunting lodge from the beginning of the 19th century

Photogallery

Notes

References

• Kordiovský, Emil - Klanicová Evženie (eds.), Město Břeclav, Muzejní a vlastivědná společnost, Brno (2001).
• Památkový ústav v Brně: text on the reverse of a tourist map, Shocart, Zlín (1998).

See also

• Lednice
• Valtice

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